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by aplummer 5y ago
The nearly 40 thousand victims (4 per 100k) of gun violence and suicide-by-firearm each year in the USA may be meaningless to you, but they are not statistically non-existent any more than their lives were statistically non-existent.
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by aplummer 5y ago
> I live in the US without the fear of death in a mass shooting because I understand statistics. Obviously you are making the assumption I do not understand statistics, which I do. There are multiple preventable causes of death that can
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by aplummer 5y ago
Please don't strawman me, I didn't say I agree with the surveillance bill (I do not) and I don't live in Australia - my family does though. It's a different country with a different set of tradeoffs, and is also a more f
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by aplummer 5y ago
The 5km thing is real while the lockdown is in effect. Keep in mind it’s different to America, you get paid decent money from the state to stay at home. Whether or not the ~20 000 lives saved from these lockdowns comes down to opinion in th
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by aplummer 5y ago
I think you got me there, but it's at least up there as a big winner.
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by aplummer 5y ago
Thanks for adding this. Compulsory mass vaccination is one of the greatest medical miracles in human history, possibly the actual single greatest. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_lung#/media/File:Po
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by aplummer 5y ago
Yeah and also in a significant amount of cases, the real job is expectation management around downstream dependencies and timeline. Arguably the only true metric is "was anyone surprised at the engineering deliverable in time and quali
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by aplummer 5y ago
In Australia it is, when the horses race the nation stops
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by aplummer 5y ago
Seriously, California does this https://ssl.arb.ca.gov/pfirs/cb3/cb3.php?id=16 In the middle of a drought it’s mostly too dangerous even in winter. To an extent it’s also a pollution issue.
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by aplummer 5y ago
Ok I think we are still talking a pretty healthy buffer here
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by aplummer 5y ago
So that’s 1% of the US military budget. Double it and it seems affordable? What is the return on aircraft carriers 8-11, when the next most powerful nation has 1.
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by aplummer 5y ago
I should have confirmed I was denying the claim and not making one, “we have not proved it goes away quietly eventually”.
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by aplummer 5y ago
I take “quietly” to mean “without causing havoc and long term symptoms” which appears to be the undefined term here. This is why I refer explicitly to long term symptoms as being what remains. I stand by my comment, it does not “quietly” go
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by aplummer 5y ago
When we eradicated polio with the miracle of vaccinations and stopped having children in iron lungs
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by aplummer 5y ago
Keep going into the office? Different strokes
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by aplummer 5y ago
You are describing all video game publishers, Nintendo, Microsoft, Epic, Sony. This is actually for indie developers, who can de-risk a project by taking the upfront money.
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by aplummer 5y ago
It’s not evil at all. Do you see how accessible the price of this thing is? There is trade offs. Also, there is official support for playing your steam games (wirelessly) now, so you’re not correct on that.
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by aplummer 5y ago
I can drive for hours with the Volvo lane keeping on. It’s not that I’m not paying attention; but not doing the little micro adjustments to speed and lane keeping actually leaves me much more refreshed at the end of the drive.
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by aplummer 5y ago
This is one of my favourite things about moving to America that is definitely true. People are just so optimistic to the point of delusion sometimes.
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by aplummer 5y ago
This is assuming malice when you could assume incompetence (to whatever slight degree this stuff is). Probably these things got put in a future release, or are in the backlog still. Well meaning product designers wanted them and can't
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by aplummer 5y ago
This is whataboutism, as well as ad hominem. I accurately stated that a source was not a reliable one (it’s a British tabloid, my nan who survived the war knows this but I provided an example of evidence). > hN is just full of highly pro
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by aplummer 5y ago
That's because the source regularly deliberately misinforms. So it's impossible to know if literally any of the claims here are completely made up. For example: _In December 2019, The Sun's political editor, Tom Newton Dunn,
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by aplummer 5y ago
Even in the abstract it says that hypothesis based on risk factors (which are accounted for in distribution) are the underlying cause of this distinction. As well, this is analysis after the fact, and not at the time of the decision making
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by aplummer 5y ago
Well 1. because it’s only due to the masks and endless testing the Covid death count is so low 2. Without the masks and endless testing, young people would infect many many older people, creating even more deaths This isn’t a conspiracy. Do
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by aplummer 5y ago
Huh? The government writes the laws, the people elect them. These laws could say "95% maximum tax bracket" (They used to) but they don't. There could be a CEO tax, but there isn't.
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by aplummer 5y ago
There is a massive difference between following poorly written laws correctly and breaking the law.
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by aplummer 5y ago
> RCV does have some serious problems. Eliminating the candidate with the least first-place votes at each round means a high probability of rejecting compromise candidates that may be a lot of voters' second choice. Also, placing yo
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by aplummer 5y ago
> ridiculous strawman argument to attempt to equate legally required and life save medical insurance to airline travel Untrue. > Well, they are, so I‘ll lay it out. That cost calculation is completely ridiculous without taking into ac
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by aplummer 5y ago
> You’re basically asking to be charged based on your subjective experience, not on the actual cost of the goods and services. Or more accurately, you’re asking for other people to pay for extra goods and services they aren’t using so yo
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by aplummer 5y ago
So I should pay more for being 6’7”? Should your health insurance cost more since a number of chronic conditions are more likely to affect shorter people?

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